Claire Tomalin Quotes
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To even get to the Olympics, I have to qualify for the 2013 World Championships and the standard is high. I know I am always going to be a few points behind the top guys.
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One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
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The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own.
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I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.
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But it's a very universal story and the thing is I was reluctant to answer that question because I don't want people latching on to a particular stereotype.
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The only decent daily paper of record in France is the online 'Mediapart,' which exposes graft and corruption in high places and is feared by the establishment.
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When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's going to happen when you have a difference of opinion. Most attempts at collaboration never survive the negotiation. Merely being agreeable is not enough.
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Sometimes I feel like if I'm not getting people to boo me, then I'm not doing my job right.
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You can't be against bullying without actually doing something about it.
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I just wanted to make a record that wasn't escapism. Like, I didn't want to write another record that was devoid of meaningful content.
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No one likes getting hit. It's a normal thing... I used to make up excuses when the coach would ask me to get in the ring. I'd say I forgot my mouthpiece, or I'd say I had a headache or something.
Mandy Bujold -
A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity.
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Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.
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When you are in your 20's and 30's, you just want a hit record and you don't really care how it happens.
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Of all the waste we generate, plastic bags are perhaps the greatest symbol of our throwaway society. They are used, then forgotten, and they leave a terrible legacy.
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Leaving the record companies tweaked something inside me and I realised I don't have to deal with labels to make something happen. If I want to meet someone, I don't have to go through the label - I'll just go to them. I took my life in my hands and social media has just helped me do that more.
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One of the things that Ang brings to all of his projects is his deep sense of being a double exile, an outsider's outsider.
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It is impossible to say just what I mean!But as if a magic lantern threw the nerves in patterns on a screen:Would it have been worth while If one, settling aPillow or throwing off a shawl,And turning toward the window, should say:'That is not it at all,That is not what I meant, at all.'
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If I could eat without gaining weight or getting unhealthy, I would eat all the time.
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All players are their own worst critics. We are harder on ourselves than anyone else is.
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I feel like one thing that a lot of creative people go through is that they feel like they don't have the right to be creative or to put their stuff out there. I'm glad that blogging from a young age kind of got that out of the way for me.
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More people are using the Internet and searching for information and things to buy, and they want to know where these places are.
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I know it sounds pathetic, but I don't know who I am.
